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In the annals of art theft, no case has matched - for sheer criminal panache - the heist at Ireland's Russborough House in 1986. The Irish police knew right away that the mastermind was a Dublin gangster named Martin Cahill. Yet the great plunder - including a Gainsborough, a Go…
From the smugglers' paradise of the South African mines to the glittering store windows of Tiffany's, Hart follows the diamond trail, encountering characters as memorable as the stones they seek. 4 maps. 25 photos.
What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? This book answers these questions through case studies of Scottish, English, and 'Black Atlantic' poetries from the landmark modernist…
Vernacular discourse from major to minor -- The impossibility of synthetic Scots; or, Hugh MacDiarmid's nationalist internationalism -- A dialect written in the spelling of the capital: Basil Bunting goes home -- Tradition and the postcolonial talent: T.S. Eliot versus E.K. Brat…
What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? This book answers these questions through case studies of Scottish, English, and 'Black Atlantic' poetries from the landmark modernist…
What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? This book answers these questions through case studies of Scottish, English, and 'Black Atlantic' poetries from the landmark modernist…
"From the lost empires of the Sahara to today's frenzied global gold rush, a blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold by the award-winning author of Diamond. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketed--in three years more than doubling from …
"From the lost empires of the Sahara to today's frenzied global gold rush, a blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold by the award-winning author of Diamond.Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketed--in three years more than doubling from $…
"From the lost empires of the Sahara to today's frenzied global gold rush, a blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold by the award-winning author of Diamond. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketed--in three years more than doubling from …